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Tape backup on fd and tar



Folks,

here's a [probably simple] question that the reseller [not surprisingly]
couldn't answer:

I'm interested in buying a Coloroado Jumbo 1400 Internal backup tape drive
for my P90 with Linux 1.2.1 (the drive costs $169 from GLOBAL, and stores
up to 1.36GB of data, compressed).  According to the listing in the catalog,
the drive "connects to your existing floppy controller - even if you already
have two floppy drives installed".  Well, I have one 3.5" drive and an IDE
hard drive (I also have a SCSI controller/drive, but these backup units are
considerably more expensive...)  My question is, if I hook up this bargain
drive to my floppy controller, can I still use Unix-type backup utils such
as "tar"?  I can't see any reason why not, but I figured I'd ask the
list before ordering (*gasp*) mail order.

Thanks,
Eric Hansen
-- 
Eric J. Hansen ...................... http://www.worldmachine.com/users/hansen
SW Developer / Worldmachine Technologies ........ mailto:eric at worldmachine.com




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